The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offshore Lights you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you’re wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind. (M.L. Stedman)

Down, down, down to the extreme tip of Sicily until there is no path anymore, then walk further towards South, along a boulders walkway that surfaces only with the low tide.

Here we are finally: we have set our feet on ‘Isola delle Correnti, the southernmost and probably the most isolated point of Italy.

We are further south than Tunis, as much south as Algiers, and yet in Italy.

Few buildings, a lighthouse. But nobody’s around: the last lighthouse keeper has left the island at the end of last century. Since then, here live only seabirds. And you can clearly hear them, together with the wind and the waves made by the clash of two different currents belonging to two different seas.

If you don’t like loneliness, better to come here in summer: at least you’ll be able to spot some people on the beach on the mainland. Otherwise only waves and seagulls.

While on the island, don’t forget the time passing by and keep track of the ephemeris: you have to come back before the tide rises again. Otherwise the boulders link with the mainland will be underwater and you either swim or spend the night on the island.